A beekeeper inspects a hive that's filled three brood boxes and warns that a heat wave plus heavy nectar flow next week will trigger swarming if the colony gets congested. He recommends adding a fourth brood box now to give the bees enough space.
3 days before a heat wave, let's see if these bees need some more space. Dead giveaway there. I'm gonna go with yes, the bees need more space. So these are on a treble Langstroth configuration. They have filled up 3 Langstroth brood boxes and it is time for the 4th. Kind of ruined my video. Basically, I wanted to give everyone a heads up that next week the weather is going to be superb. If you're seeing any kind of congestion in the colonies, next week is going to be the week that they swarm. In short, you give them way more space than you normally would. That's why these are getting another full brood box. Your colonies next week will be sodden with nectar. They run out of space, they will swarm. Give them lots and lots and lots of space.
